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Cancer Data Champions

Nov 21, 2024 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT

To support our collective effort to enhance public health for cancer patients—from clinical applications to supporting research to building a more robust health system in general—the College of American Pathologists (CAP) is sponsoring a series of Cancer Data Champions webinars.

  • Do you lead efforts in your institution—and across health care—to allow for increased access to and aggregation of pathology data?
  • Would you like to better leverage pathology data in the pursuit of improved clinical care?
  • Are better patient outcomes and more robust research initiatives on your to-do list?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then there's a good chance you’re already on your way to becoming a Cancer Data Champion.

This ongoing series examines visionary topics for the use of data in addition to real-world, hands-on opportunities to utilize the current data stores. Please join us as we explore the breadth and depth of pathology data that is readily available to support these initiatives.

Webinar Schedule

  • Integrated Molecular Results: Harnessing the potential with your data analytics

    Thursday, November 21, 2024
    2:00 PM CT

    Presenters:

    Alexander Baras, MD, PhD, FCAP
    Johns Hopkins

    Brett W. Baskovich, MD, FCAP
    Mount Sinai

Previous Webinars

  • Pathology Report Data Life Cycle: How to access cancer surveillance data

    In this webinar, speakers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) present information about available data resources covering the US population and North America as well as the National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR). Learn about publicly available data visualization tools and how to gain access to the data for your own research.

  • Transforming Cancer Registry Data: Unlock the potential of CAP Cancer Protocols for enhanced completeness and quality

    Review challenges observed due to improper implementation of the College of American Pathologists' electronic Cancer Protocols (eCP) and the impact properly implemented eCP has on the completeness, timeliness, and quality of cancer registry data. The California Cancer Registry review their experience with receipt of eCP-structured data to enable more real-time case reporting that can be used to guide patient care, develop prevention programs, and provide cancer registry data to researchers and pathologists to better direct their work.

  • Finding, Organizing, and Using CAP eCP Data to Accelerate Cancer Research

    Members of the Northwestern University Research Analytics team discuss how they leveraged the College of American Pathologists' electronic Cancer Protocols (eCP) data, optimizing its use by building an extension data model and ETL that represents discrete synoptic data in a simple entity attribute value (EAV) structure, allowing them to incorporate CAP eCP data into multiple research analytic use cases.

  • SNOMED CT and eCP Binding and Data Navigation

    Learn how the development of the SNOMED CT, a standard for electronic exchange of clinical health information, allowed the creation of content specific to cancer protocols internationally, aligning with CAP- and ICCR-published protocols. See how these concepts are used to query synoptic data for use in research, clinical care, and quality improvement activities.

  • Cancer Data Standards: A practical approach to understanding data interoperability

    In recent years, numerous projects have been initiated to create tools and data sharing standards to foster a more cohesive and integrated approach. This webinar will review some of the ongoing efforts to enhance interoperability using structured data capture, streamlining data exchange, and minimizing manual data entry. We'll also discuss the advantages and ease of using the APHL platform.

  • Innovative Cancer Care: Integrating our provincial LIS with CAP Synoptic Standardization—The Alberta Advantage

    Get an in-depth look into Alberta's province-wide, comprehensive EPIC implementation, which aligned over 100 laboratories on a unified platform. Learn how the use of CAP cancer synoptic forms plays a key role in standardizing cancer reporting, generating discrete data points that enhance quality initiatives, improve workload management, and reduce post-analytical errors. Learn how this integration supports research efforts, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes and more efficient health care delivery.